Vadjosorrus Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Can anyone I.D? Covered in tiny crystals, looks like a thousand camera flashes going off when you walk by it. I found all these the other day. The big sparklee one is 40 lbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Very interesting pieces. I would definitely have picked them up. From the cross section, me think geologic. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 It has the appearance of the pet. wood from Brilliant Alabama. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadjosorrus Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 4 hours ago, ashcraft said: Very interesting pieces. I would definitely have picked them up. From the cross section, me think geologic. Brent Ashcraft That your final answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bone2stone Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Of course it is fossil wood. This type of preservation is quite abundant in some areas of Hood county in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 It certainly looks likes petrified wood from the sides, but the first picture, which I am assuming is an end shot, not so much. As well as the sides are preserved, there should be some evidence of cell structure if it actually was wood. You might be able to see under magnification (low magnification, like a hand lens) if there are cell like structures. There are a number of geologic structures that can be mistaken for petrified wood, silcrete being the one I am thinking of. Some times stromatolites can also look like petrified wood, although I do not think that is what you have. I have not collected in that area, so listen to the locals before you listen to me, but I have been fooled a number of times, and I have collected quite a bit of local cretaceous age petrified wood. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 59 minutes ago, ashcraft said: It certainly looks likes petrified wood from the sides, but the first picture, which I am assuming is an end shot, not so much. I believe, what is seen is a plant interior with bundled fibrous elements, that is highly vascular. Perhaps less like oak wood and more like a giant okra stalk. The structures seen in the first image are typical for specimens in my collection from Brilliant Alabama. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Okra - yummy! Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 42 minutes ago, SailingAlongToo said: Okra - yummy! YES, fried! Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 In this area it is called "sugar wood" because of the minute quartz crystals that make it sparkle. I agree that it is petrified wood. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 As some of the members of the Forum are not familiar with the area and their possibilities regarding to pet wood, I'll be short as I could: Where was the specimens found? Can we see some resembling pictures, gentlemen? Has been determined the genus/species of the Paluxy Sand Formation pet woods? I almost think about Araucarioxylon or appropriate, but I'm not familiar with these, so I could be wrong in my thought. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadjosorrus Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Agathoxylon Hartig ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 " Wood showing alternately arranged, multiseriate bordered pitting and araucarioid cross-field pits has been traditionally assigned to Araucarioxylon Kraus in Schimper, although as Bamford and Philippe (2001) have noted, this is a nomen illegitum. The genus Agathoxylon Hartig, which we use here, has been suggested as a valid alternative by Bamford and Philippe (2001), but we note that the nomenclature for this wood type remains mired in debate. Wood of this type is highly characteristic of all three extant genera (Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia) of the conifer family Araucariaceae (Phillips, 1948), and this is the most likely affinity for our specimen. Although Biondi (1980), in his review of the Aptian-Albian woods of Italy, inferred that all described taxa (Araucarioxylon, Protopodocarpoxylon, Protophyllocladoxylon) probably belong to the Protopinaceae, an extinct family of conifers, the specimen we describe here does not show the characteristic pitting of the Protopinaceae (Philippe,1992), and an araucarian affinity is more likely in our view. " excerpt from E. Kustatscher et al. 2013. Early Cretaceous araucarian driftwood from hemipelagic sediments of the Puez area, South Tyrol, Italy. Cretaceous Research 41: 270-276 2 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadjosorrus Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Ya! What he said ^^. Very nicely written. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Woodis sparkleus. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadjosorrus Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Funky-Town, Texas found, Heavy Blingwood that drifted across the sea from Italy. From a time when, dinosaurs roamed the Earth! Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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